Who Should I Vote For (UK 2020)

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1. Health and Social Care: Select the policies you agree with Social Care

End competitive tendering; establish a countrywide National Care Service which provides free personal care, ensuring older people have care needs met; cap old age care costs at £100,000

Extra £1bn funding a year; no need to sell a home to pay for care; extend unpaid carers’ leave to a week; double dementia research funding; speed up treatment trials

Join up NHS with the social care system; set up cross-party agreement to find long term sustainable solution to social care needs; improve standards of staff; guarantee of breaks for unpaid carers

Provide an extra £4.5bn a year to councils to allow free social care to over-65s living in their own homes

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For each policy area, select the policy grouping you agree with.

2. Housing: Select the policies you agree with Housing

Create a Department for Housing & English Sovereign Land Trust to develop cheaper social housing; build 150,000 social houses, including 100,000 council homes a year; end right to buy; introduce rent controls and end all rough sleeping in 5 years; introduce a new zero-carbon standard for all new homes being built, including solar panels.

More homes to local families via discounts; extend Help to Buy to 2023; ban sale of new leasehold homes; lifetime deposit for tenants; 300,000 new homes by mid-2020s.

Build 300,000 homes a year by 2024, including 100,000 social homes; insulate all homes by 2030; link stamp duty to energy efficiency; all new homes zero carbon by 2021

Upgrade the insulation of a million homes a year and build 100,000 energy efficient council homes a year; boost local authorities’ powers to enable more building where needed

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3. Climate Change: Select the policies you agree with Tackling Climate Change

Net zero carbon by mid 2030s; 90% of electricity and 50% of heat renewable by 2030 at a minimum; upgrade 27m homes to top energy efficiency; 9,000 new wind turbines; plant 2bn trees by 2040; 44,000 acres of solar coverage; tidal power and offshore wind; nationalise the National Grid; create 10 new protected National Parks

Zero carbon by 2045; 80% of UK electricity from renewables by 2030; 60 million trees planted a year; £12bn a year to support renewable energy; set firms climate targets; adopt 'circular economy' system to boost recycling/cut waste

Investment across most sectors to cut emissions to net zero carbon by 2030, adding up to £100bn a year, with ‘new deals’ for energy, housing, transport, industry, farming and incomes

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4. Transport: Select the policies you agree with

Nationalise rail; nationalise buses; free bus and train travel for u-25s; reinstate cut bus routes; invest in local roads; Crossrail for north; electrify whole UK train fleets; promote rail freight; use planning to promote walking and cycling; promote electric vehicles

Cut the number of vehicles on the roads; end sale of petrol/diesel vehicles by 2030; create electric charging network; create ‘golden age’ of the train by renationalising; apply carbon tax on all transport; ban new runways

£2bn to fill potholes; minimum service during strikes; £350m cycling infrastructure; £100bn extra on road/rail infrastructure; £28.8bn for local roads; £1bn for fast-charging network; continue investing in HS2

Interim freezing of rail fares; back new lines including HS2; ensure all new cars are electric by 2030; shift freight from road to rail; reform planning to boost cycling and walking; £4.5bn for more buses; pass Clean Air Act

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5. Jobs and Working Rights: Select the policies you agree with

1m new green jobs; abolish anti trade union laws; £10/hr min wage for over-16s; staff share ownership; paid maternity to 12 months; zero-hour contracts ban; sectoral collective bargaining; widespread extension of workers' rights; 4 new bank holidays; cut working week to 32 hrs; workers to sit on company boards at minimum of 1/3 representation;

Towns Fund to improve local economies; £150m Community Ownership Fund; crackdown on employment law abuse; encourage flexi working; enhance parental leave allowances; increase agri-workers scheme

Skills wallet worth £10,000 each for life; roll out reassessed Living Wage across public sector; modernise employment rights for the gig economy; require workers on firms' pay committees and at least one worker on boards

Create millions of green jobs in renewable energy, transport and land management sectors by the transition to zero carbon; provide training to ensure people are equipped

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6. Economic Policy: Select the policies you agree with Economic Model, Trade and Infrastructure

80% of UK trade covered by free trade agreements within three years; 10 new freeports; retake WTO seat; support start-ups and small businesses via government procurement; clamp down on late payments to businesses; expand start-up loans; roll out superfast 5G broadband

Nationalise Royal Mail; nationalise water; nationalise steel production; roll out new public fibre broadband for all homes and businesses by 2035; remain in the EU customs union; double cooperative ownership in the UK within one term of government.

Remain in the European Union, 50bn increase in spending on public services, align trade more with the EU single market.

New global agreements to regulate international trade and investment in the interests of equity and sustainable development. Reduce to a minimum the overall volume of international trade, and to revitalise local communities by promoting maximum self-reliance, economic, social, and political control.

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7. Economic Policy: Select the policies you agree with. Taxation

Place a windfall tax on big oil companies; raise the rate of income tax for £80,000+ earners; freeze national insurance and income taxes for 95% and increase corporation tax to 26% from 19% to generate income for public spending.

Increase corporation tax to 20% from 19%; abolish capital gains tax and tax all income together; replace business rates in England with Commercial Landowner Levy; toughen Digital Sales Tax.

No increases to income tax, National Insurance or VAT for anyone; raise National Insurance threshold to £9,500 in 2020; keep 19% corporation tax to encourage business; reduce business rates;

Merge national insurance and capital gains, inheritance, dividend and income taxes into a single tax, bringing in an extra £20bn into the public purse; shift burden of property taxation from land users to land owners while protecting the low paid.

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8. Economic Policy: Select the policies you agree with Investment and Spending

£400bn "transformation" fund for schools, hospitals, houses, energy, transport, environment; Create a National Investment Bank to fund a 'Green Industrial Revolution,' shift part of the UK treasury to the North.

Invest £130bn on transport, energy, schools, hospitals, homes, including £5bn Green Investment Bank to boost low carbon investment; ambition to increase R&D spend to 3% of GDP; create 'start up' allowance for new entrepreneurs; run a permanent budget surplus

Support small businesses to diversify enterprise by promoting affordable lending; offer govt contracts to boost the micro business sector; and cut VAT on catering, leisure and the arts

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9. Immigration: Select the policies you agree with

Points-based immigration system; NHS visa for health workers; recruit tech and science leaders; treat EU and non-EU citizens equally; EU citizens who were in UK before Brexit can stay; new arrivals only access benefits after five years and must contribute to NHS

Regulate labour market to stop undercutting of wages through exploitation of migrants; scrap 2014 Immigration Act; end indefinite detention centres; negotiate Freedom of Movement if leaving EU

Save freedom of movement; scrap hostile environment for migrants; end indefinite detention; make work/student visas the role of Business and Education depts, not Home Office; invest to help Border Force tackle trafficking

Reduce migration in the long term by correcting labour market inequalities; create Ministry for Sanctuary to enforce “migration rules with compassion”; abolish income requirements for migrants

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10. Foreign Policy: Select the policies you agree with

Keep aid at 0.7% GDP; new climate focused foreign policy of 'peace and justice'; use aid to promote peaceful solutions to global conflict; new UK-EU Security Treaty if UK leaves; extra £4bn a year on international climate finance; create Department of International Justice; ban sale of arms to Saudi Arabia, Israel et al; formally recognise the State of Palestine; formally apologise for the Jallianwallah Bagh massacre and atrocities committed by the British Empire; teach about colonialism in education system

Increase spending on foreign aid by 2021 to 1% of GDP from current 0.7%; make tackling climate change and poorer nations a priority

Spend 0.7% of national income on aid; champion rules-based intl approach; work across govt to prevent violent conflict; link arms exports to human rights; require Commons vote before military action

0.7% of gross national income on international development; help aid-receiving countries be self-sufficient; protect those persecuted for faith; stand up for right of every girl to have 12 years of education

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11. Economic Policy: Select the policies you agree with. Taxation

Increase corporation tax to 20% from 19%; abolish capital gains tax and tax all income together; replace business rates in England with Commercial Landowner Levy; toughen Digital Sales Tax.

No increases to income tax, National Insurance or VAT for anyone; raise National Insurance threshold to £9,500 in 2020; keep 19% corporation tax to encourage business; reduce business rates;

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12. Education: Select the policies you agree with

New Sure Start; early years education for all children; reverse school cuts; 150,000 more early years staff; all class sizes 30 max; schools open 5 days; scrap KS1&2 SATS; replace OFSTED with new body; abolish academies and return schools to local authority control; free school meals for all at primary schools; abolish university tuition fees; bring back maintenance grants; opportunity for every child to learn a musical instrument/play a sport.

More free schools; academies and educational trusts; expansion of alternative provision schools; more special educational needs places; investment in arts, music and sport; £3bn national skills fund; £2bn college estates upgrade

Free childcare for working parents from 9 months; reverse cuts to schools; 20,000 extra teachers; scrap mandatory SATs; replace league tables with broader indicators

Increase funding to schools by at least £4bn a year; cut class sizes to under 20 in the long term; end testing, league tables and OFSTED inspections; increase formal education start age to 6; levy VAT and tax on private schools

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13. Defence: Select the policies you agree with

Boost UN peacekeeping ops funding to £100m; commit to 2% GDP on defence spending; nationalise and keep all royal fleet shipbuilding in UK

At least 0.5% above-inflation NATO spending increase each year; modernise and invest in Armed Forces equipment and training; invest more in cybersecurity; set up Space Command; tackle "vexatious" legal claims against Armed Forces

Commit to NATO 2% target; keep nuclear deterrent while seeking multilateral disarmament; boost recruitment of tech specialists to armed forces; invest in combatting cyber arena attacks

Replace the Ministry of Defence with the Ministry of Security and Peace with promotion of peace at its heart; end govt arms sales

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14. Health and Social Care: Select the policies you agree with NHS

Inject £26bn into the NHS; increase spending by 4.3% a year; abolish the NHS internal market privatisation; free annual dental check ups; end health access discrimination; extra £1.6bn on mental health services; state run drugs manufacturer, ending use of big pharma contracts.

An extra £7bn a year by putting 1p on income tax to go to the NHS and social care; treat mental health with same urgency as physical health; end GP shortfall by 2025; extra £10bn in capital spending for facilities

Increase funding by at least £6bn a year each year to 2030; reinstate nursing bursaries; abolish the internal market; and replace private sector investment with “community leadership”

Hire 50,000 new nurses; 50 million extra GP appointments a year; 40 new hospitals; new diagnosis machines; 6,000 new GPs; 6,000 more physios and pharmacists; increased NHS surcharge for non-UK residents and immigrants

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